The 11th annual Greenbelt Green Man Festival will be held on May 9 and May 10 on the Roosevelt Center Plaza in the heart of the Historic Greenbelt, Maryland. For more information see www.greenbeltgreenmanfestival.org.
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Market Day
The Cylburn Arborstum Association with partners, Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks, University of Maryland Extension Services, Master Gardeners, and LifeBridge Health are thrilled to host the 47th Cylburn Arboretum Market Day & Market Day Preview. Market day will be on May 9 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is free. See www.cylburnassociation.org […]
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‘Listen to Your Mother’
Listen to Your Mother is a one day live staged reading event giving local residents and writers the opportunity to share their stories of motherhood. The event is on May 9 at 4 p.m. at the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Auditorium on the campus of Mercy High School. This is Baltimore’s 2nd year hosting. Taya […]
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Summer Media Camp
The Fly Girl Network is having its spring fundraiser. They are selling delicious seafood dinners to raise money for their Summer Media Camp. The dinners will be sold May 1 through May 3. Please call Brittany at 443-208-1195 or visit www.flygirlnetwork.org to order dinners or to donate. Proceeds will benefit the Fly Girl Network’s summer […]
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Annual Prayer Breakfast 2015
The Baltimore City branch of the NAACP‘s prayer breakfast will be 9 a.m. to noon, May 9 at The Forest Park Senior Center. The Rev. Errol Gillard Sr., pastor of Greater Harvest Baptist Church is the guest speaker. Tickets are $30. For more information contact Joe Aston at 443.226.9459 or via email joeaston1@hotmail.com or the […]
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Black Leadership Classes
The Fannie Lou Hamer Black Leadership classes are on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. at Coppin State University. For more information contact Dr. Ken Morgan at 410-951-4187 or see www.upppmaryland.org for more information.
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Black Lives Matter, Social Justice Now!
The Ujima Peoples Progress Party in collaboration with Coppin State University Urban Studies Program is hosting a statewide conference on May 2 to build Maryland’s first Black workers-led political party for social and economic justice. Interested persons should meet at Coppin State University Health and Human Services building 103. The conference starts at 8:30 a.m. […]
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‘I Remember Mom Prayer Breakfast’
Life Restoration Ministry is celebrating Mother’s Day on May 9 at Old Country Buffet , 6506 Baltimore National Drive. The prayer breakfast will begin at 9 a.m. Donations are $10. For more information or to rsvp contact Dr. Mankekolo Mahlangu-Ngcobo at 443.739.1217.
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Mother’s Tea
Shiloh Baptist church of Edgemere is hosting a Mother’s Day Tea on May 9 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Heritage Gardens Champagne Room in Parkville Shopping Center. Join us as we Celebrate The Legacy of Motherhood featuring guest speaker Leah Weah, pastor of New Bethlehem Baptist church. Isaac Parham will provide the […]
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Latest on Freddie Gray Death: Looting, protest in Ferguson
State Sen. Catherine E. Pugh, right, D-Baltimore, embraces a protestor while urging the crowd to disperse ahead of a 10 p.m. curfew in the wake of Monday’s riots following the funeral for Freddie Gray, Tuesday, April 28, 2015, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/David Goldman) Looting, fires and gunfire broke out overnight in Ferguson during protests in […]
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Baltimore Streets Once Rocked by Riots Quiet after Curfew
Members of the National Guard walk along North Avenue near where Monday’s riots occurred following the funeral for Freddie Gray, after a 10 p.m. curfew went into effect Wednesday, April 29, 2015, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/David Goldman) BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore streets previously rocked by riots were quiet Wednesday morning at the lifting of a […]
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The Young Come Out in Droves for Gray
Tavon Cotton, a cousin of Freddie Gray, honors Freddie’s memory. (Photos by Shernay Williams) Young people peppered the mass of supporters who flooded New Shiloh Baptist Church April 27 to help lay Freddie Gray, the African-American man who recently died in police custody, to rest. Twenty-somethings, teenagers, and even infants stood in the long lines […]